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Hello all, with the new season's around Europe starting in a couple of weeks and the sad death of Sir Bobby Robson I thought it would be a good time to start a new topic.

Obviously Real Madrid and Manchester City have been the most active in the transfer market, arguably strengthening their team, mainly just attack though. Through the large spending it has once again seen a crazy transfer window with prices now hyper inflated. This was last seen after the Zidane transfer.

I think that Real Madrid will win the la liga this season as Barcelona will be playing pretty much the same as last year.

At this point I am totally unsure as to who will win the Premier League this season. I don't think Liverpool will have as good a season as last year unless they buy another very good forward or right winger. If they lose Alonso they will need to find a great centre mid that will be able to fit into the EPL style fast.

edit - To get this out of the way I don't know who will win the Superbowl.

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i'm a massive united fan, i'm not sure about this season though, after loosing ronnie and tevez we aint really bought well, we should have bought more, arsenal look the same as they did last year, can't wait to see city fall on their arse!! i think chelsea are the ones to watch this season, liverpool will be nowhere to be seen, they had their chace last year and blew it!!

as for la liga, barca will walk it again, can't see madrid doing much, gonna be a great league this year though, i hope valencia do well

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I think the Top 4 teams are all much weaker than last season with the exception of Chelsea. Arsenal will struggle to finish in the top four if they do not sign a high quality defender and another striker, they also badly need leaders and a big initimidating midfielder. Liverpool will struggle without Alonso, it will put further pressure on Gerrard and Torres. I also think they are weak in the centre of defence. United with obviously be weaker without Ronaldo and Tevez, they will need Owen to score a fair few goals if they want to retain the League. Valencia is a quality player but he's going to struggle to get into double figures with goals imo, he'll probably provide more assists than Ronaldo. I believe the title race will be between Chelsea and United, I wouldn't want to say who's going to win it though.

As for my team, Gary Megson has stated we need a creative midfielder at all costs. So far we have just signed defenders and a rubbish defensive midfielder. We're now being linked just to more full backs such as Danny Mills and before you ask, he is still playing supposedly. I am so pessimistic for this season it is untrue. We will be the most negative and dull side in the league by miles, we will score the least goals and have the most 0-0 draws. I think we'll finish 15th solely because of some teams in the League being shocking like Hull, Burnley, Stoke, Wigan etc but we will be in a relegation dogfight most of the season and we could easily be relegated. Kevin Davies' goals kept us up this season and there is no way he will score more than 6 or 7 this time. We'll really struggle for goals. Oh well, at least being at Uni I won't see us loosing on match of the day, unfortunately i'm closer to the stadium and will end up going to most home games.

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EPL will be interestin indeed... i don't put my money on Chelsea cos of Ancellotti... he's such a fuckin shit defensive coach! they need players... i've never trusted Anelka, and Drogba ain't the same it's been a while

Serie A will be the same... the title is always with Juve, Inter or Milan (Roma wins one per decade and Milan shouldn't trust Ronaldinho to be the man now that KakÃ¡ is gone)

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Liverpool will struggle without Alonso, it will put further pressure on Gerrard and Torres. I also think they are weak in the centre of defence.

agree Alonso will be a big miss but disagree with the comment about our centre halves! perhaps we need a 4th (Distin has been linked) but barring injuries the 4th choice cb would only play the odd game and perhaps in the carling cup.Carra has so much experience in domestic and european football,Skrtel has been brilliant since he joined,real blood and thunder defender in the vidic mold and Agger is such a gifted footballer technically he could even play centre mid and not look out of place,so im pretty happy we have the right blend at the back.

the two places i think we need to strengthen are central midfield and another top striker rather than 3 or 4 very average ones.

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I think Liverpool needed Micheal Owen more then United do, Rafa admitted to being interested in him but decided not to get him. Him and Torres would have made a good partnership up front. Alonso is a massive loss for them, looks like Mascherano will be next out the door too.